Cisco: Latest news and insights
Cisco is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking, and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Its most recent mega-acquisition is its $28 billion purchase of Splunk, a bold move...
View ArticleLinux Foundation Networking shares new AI projects, milestone releases
The Linux Foundation’s networking division (LF Networking) is continuing to grow both its mandate and project roster in 2025. At the Open Networking & Edge Summit in London, which is co-located...
View ArticleSolarWinds launches incident response tool, boosts AI in observability platform
SolarWinds this week introduced a new incident response product and announced AI-based updates to its observability platform and service management product that are aimed at strengthening IT...
View ArticlePalo Alto VP Jordi Botifoll: ‘You can’t play with cybersecurity’
Palo Alto Networks was founded 20 years ago by Israeli network security expert Nir Zuk, the firm’s current CTO and one of the technological architects of Check Point – a company with which Palo Alto...
View ArticleNetBox Labs launches drift detection tool to tame configuration chaos
NetBox Labs this week made available a new product that will help network teams detect and remediate configuration drift across sophisticated network environments before costly service disruptions or...
View ArticleNvidia’s Blackwell raises the bar with new MLPerf Inference V5.0 results
Nvidia on Wednesday released a set of MLPerf Inference V5.0 benchmark results for its Blackwell GPU, the successor to Hopper, saying that its GB200 NVL72 system, a rack-scale offering designed for AI...
View ArticleSplunk launches inventory tool to simplify OpenTelemetry monitoring
Splunk this week announced a new Service Inventory product that uses OpenTelemetry to offer a comprehensive view into service instrumentation, which the observability company says will solve a...
View ArticleIBM Cloud speeds AI workloads with Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators
IBM Cloud is broadening its AI technology services with Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators now available to enterprise customers. With Gaudi 3 accelerators, customers can more cost-effectively test, deploy...
View ArticlePotential Nvidia chip shortage looms as Chinese customers rush to beat US...
The AI chip shortage could become even more dire as Chinese customers are purportedly looking to hoard Nvidia chips ahead of a proposed US sales ban. According to inside sources, Chinese companies...
View ArticleNew MLCommons benchmarks to test AI infrastructure performance
Industry consortium MLCommons has released new versions of its MLPerf Inference benchmarks, offering a closer look at how current-generation data center and edge hardware performs under increasingly...
View ArticleNetworking terms and definitions
To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the...
View ArticleNew Relic simplifies Kubernetes performance monitoring
New Relic this week announced a new capability in its Intelligent Observability Platform that the company says will enable engineering teams to deploy an eBPF-powered agent to automatically discover...
View ArticleMechanical Orchard taps gen AI for mainframe-to-cloud modernization
IBM is expected to drive AI deep into its next mainframe refresh, due this spring, in a move aimed at keeping and attracting Big Iron customers. Meanwhile, there’s no shortage of vendors vying for...
View ArticleServiceNow to acquire Logik.ai to boost CRM portfolio
ServiceNow is acquiring Logik.ai and its configure, price, quote (CPQ) solution to expand its customer relationship management (CRM) product portfolio and accelerate its momentum in sales and order...
View ArticleTariff war throws building of data centers into disarray
Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of...
View ArticleA look back at Microsoft’s IPO
On April 4, 2000, to celebrate Microsoft’s 25th anniversary, Network World’s Paul McNamara put together the post you’ll see below. The story hasn’t changed. — It’s Thursday, March 13, 1986: Microsoft,...
View ArticleNvidia: Latest news and insights
Coverage of Nvidia GTC 2025 With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology, Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s partners read like a technology who’s who list – e.g., AWS,...
View ArticleNew Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan begins to lay out technology roadmap
He’s only been on the job for two weeks, but newly appointed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gave a major speech at a partner conference this week where he said the ailing company needs to get its act together,...
View ArticleIvanti warns customers of new critical flaw exploited in the wild
Ivanti is warning customers that a critical vulnerability that impacts its VPN appliances and other products has already been exploited in the wild by a Chinese APT group. The flaw was originally...
View ArticleSurge in threat actors scanning Juniper, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks devices
A surge in internet probes targeting devices from Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, and Palo Alto Networks should put their admins on alert, say security experts. A threat actor is probing the internet...
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